Chapter 664: Better Than A Threat...

Chapter 664: Better Than A Threat...

Chapter 664: Better Than A Threat...

“Hmmmm,” the priest hmmed slightly, the sound carried by the gentle breeze around the place.

“I could feel like I regained part of that thing that I lost when Fluffy bonded with me. Our bond wasn’t really anything that special.

He just came to me, snuggled against my finger, and when I tried to send him out, he simply lit up brightly, and I was told that I had bonded with a void cat.

I didn’t really find it special,” Zeras mused, his eyes flashing back to the day when he had met Fluffy.

The time when his heart was freshly hollow, due to having lost Vornek.

“I tried everything I could to block that hollowness deep inside.

I smiled to hide it, trying to be a playboy, I smoked to get away the thoughts, I fought hard like a maniac, I went all out, exhausting myself in battles, I shed blood, became merciless. I even accepted a love, hoping perhaps it would clear things away slightly,” Zeras mused, remembering his days in the Prodigies War event and his fleeting time with Princess Scyhleria.

“But none of it really worked. I still felt blank. The love I thought I found, I never went back to it, nor even ever hoped for the love to come back to me,” Zeras mused.

While he had truly been involved a little with Princess Scyhleria, after the Prodigies War event, the feeling of love had slowly cleared away.

He never once went to her when they arrived in the sect, nor did he even sight her at all throughout his duration.

Not like he was even stable enough to do that, nor did he have the time.

But ignoring the lack of time, Zeras just couldn’t grasp that love that was shown to him. He never thought of it, it was never within his heart at all. Almost like he was simply numb to the love.

“It was almost like a half-death, but I really had love for a single person, and that was Fluffy.

He really did block that hollowness from my heart, and for every second he stood on my shoulder, I felt more than alive. I could see there was still hope, and he became everything to me.

“People say the most scary people are those who are hollow within, feeling not a single thing at all. The perfect killing machines. But none really could lay claim to the word hollow.

No matter what technique they practiced, none would truly be able to reach the Hollow State of cultivation, because it’s more than just what the meaning of the word is.

Hollowness, it couldn’t even be almost described at all...” the priest mused to himself, a comprehension of something greater and sublime dawning on him.

“But now, I could feel the faint stench of true hollowness. I see a being with a true capability for the true Hollow State...

What would be released onto the world if he really did become hollow? I swear by everything I hold dear in the world. I will protect him, and make sure the awakening comes to a success, even at the cost of my own life.

I promise...” the priest said. And from thereon, he gave his clan a message of a half-year of slumber, before disappearing into the temple and sitting before its gate, silently guarding and waiting.

—

“That would probably be better than simply threatening him...” Zeras mused to himself as he rapidly soared through the sky. He didn’t trust the Void Blood cat, but he also couldn’t wait to protect Fluffy himself for six months.

He was the one who had no choice in this matter.

Normally, he would have threatened them fiercely with something, but that approach wouldn’t work.

The priest was an undying rank and had lived for thousands of years. What type of threat hadn’t he heard before? He would only take his threat as the ramblings of a scared kid.

So he had decided to truly come up clean to him.

A process he believed would move his heart more than a simple threat.

And unknown to him, it more than worked out for him...